Chasing the Great White Whale of American Racism

Even after the Duke lacrosse case, Texaco executives allegedly using the N-word in private meetings — which turned out to be “St. Nicholas” — the Tawana Brawley case, not to mention virtual hailstorms of racist graffiti and nooses materializing on college campuses, all of which invariably end up having been put there by the alleged victims, the Non-Fox Media (NFM) didn’t even pause before conjuring a racist plot in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida last month. Like Captain Ahab searching for the Great White Whale, the NFM is constantly on the hunt for proof of America as “Mississippi Burning.”

Over St. Patrick’s Day weekend, the month after Martin was killed, gangs in Chicago shot 10 people dead, including a 6-year-old girl, Aliyah Shell, who was sitting with her mother on their front porch.

One imagines MSNBC hosts heaving a sigh of relief that little Aliyah was not shot by a white man, and was thus spared the horror of being a victim of racism.

As it happens, Trayvon Martin wasn’t shot by a white man either, but by George Zimmerman, a mixed-race Hispanic who lives in a diverse (47 percent white) gated community and tutors black kids.

But Hispanic is close enough for the NFM. They’re chasing the Great White Whale of racist America and don’t have time to check to see if the whale is actually a guppy.

Since the cat leapt out of the bag on Zimmerman being Hispanic, the media have begun calling him a “white Hispanic.”

Not being a race-obsessed liberal, I don’t particularly care, but it’s indisputable that Zimmerman is brown. I saw his face carved on the side of a Mayan temple in the Yucatan. Using his mother’s maiden name, he would be admitted to the University of Michigan law school on a full scholarship.

Apart from that, pretty much all that is known with certainty is that Zimmerman called the police to report a suspicious character in his neighborhood, and shortly thereafter he shot and killed Martin.

On the basis of little else, the media conjured a Hollywood script: A “white” man was “stalking” a little black kid — who could be Obama’s son! — confronted him, beat him senseless as the small black child screamed for help, and finally shot the kid dead, “just because he was black.”Two weeks of nonstop hysteria later, it turns out that every part of that gripping plot is based on nothing that could be called a reasonable assumption, much less a fact.

The NFM’s theory of the case might be true, just as it might be true that the loud bang I just heard outside my door is Godzilla returning to terrorize Manhattan. I, like the NFM, have no facts supporting my theory. (Although mine is more credible because Al Sharpton is not involved and none of my facts are provably false, such as the NFM’s claim about Zimmerman being “white.”)

First of all, there’s no reason to believe Zimmerman followed Martin after the police told him not to, which is the linchpin of much excited reporting.

Zimmerman told the police, his friends and his lawyer that he walked back to his car after hanging up with the police and was waylaid by Martin. No witnesses have told the press otherwise.

We don’t know if -– as the NFM has baldly asserted — it was Martin yelling “Help!” during the struggle. Before the case became a nationwide sensation, the lead detective told the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel that the police had played all the 911 calls for Martin’s father, and he said the voice crying “Help!” was not his son’s.

(The father has subsequently retracted that.)

Before the shooting was even a twinkle in the eye of MSNBC, an eyewitness gave a detailed account to the local media, indicating that it was Martin who was on top of Zimmerman, pummeling him, as Zimmerman screamed “Help!”

For the record only my father is Jewish, my mother would probably be classified as a WASP (methodist/congregationalist in terms of upbringing).

truebearing

Why can't Zimmerman appear in his baby pictures? Since when were people allowed to pick photos that misrepresent the person's age, or is that a stupid question in this, the post-integrity era of journalism?

This whole thing was planned by the Left. They need to demonize someone to energize their base. hate is always the Left's emotion of choice, and they have been priming the black population for instant rage for decades.

http://www.themadjewess.wordpress.com MAD JEWESS

YES, it was planned, it happened LAST month!

Robert Pinkerton

"All this may give you an inkling of why we rely on the criminal justice system to determine guilt in criminal cases and not the fervid imaginations of the race-obsessed media." Brava, Madame.

Wow, and its ok for the black panthers to put a bounty on Zimmerman based on faulty evidence and Holder says nothing. I wander what would happen if white supremacists put a bounty on Holder. Every white supremacist in the world would be behind bars and all other whites would be cowering in fear. Welcome to America, where hope and change didnt mean what you thought it would

Many of us are aware that the Internet and blogosphere are awash with information concerning "Rick Warren builds bridge to Muslims," The story was reported on widely in both the Christian and secular press. (see)

Whenever we, as biblical Christians, think that things couldn’t possibly become more preposterous in Christendom, we need to call to mind the Scriptures that tell us that the time will come when Christians will not endure…

…..a larger background that might be of interest to Mad Jewess' & those Biblically inclined is THIS:

Allah is a false god of man’s making and is nothing like the God of the Bible.

http://www.themadjewess.wordpress.com MAD JEWESS

I know, Dogs, I am a crypto-Jew, most of us are "Jew-tians", a name I made up myself.
Just as the left wing "Jews" are evil, frauds, liars.

Ann C is NO Christian-she is with that sicko GO Proud, and I write on her often. I cant stand people like her.
She also dated Bill Maher.
Just WHAT did they have in common??!!
Gross, I would NOT date some Commie moron for a million bux.

DogsHateRomney

"She also dated Bill Maher?" – Whatzup with that? yuck.

http://www.themadjewess.wordpress.com MAD JEWESS

Yep, she did date Bill Maher.
Gross.
WHY would a conservative date a Commie?
She must have a lot more in common with him than a REAL man.

DogsHateRomney

Replying to MAD JEWESS (love the name) – regarding:

The Question: ~ Why would Ann Coulter date Bill Mahar?

Answer: Nose Sex? I dunno.

http://www.themadjewess.wordpress.com MAD JEWESS

Thanks.
I love the name too, often mistook for being insane.
I am just angry.

Yeah, the BIMBO probably has not had a nice night EVER with a NICE man, instead of a left wing blowhard

Jim_C

Darn good article about the case, actually.

But media is media–if it bleeds it leads. Trayvon's a ratings draw–that's all you need to know. I don't care if it's Fox or NBC or whoever–when, since the advent of cable TV, has television news ever been measured and dispassionate? Can you remember a time? I can't. Which is why I never watch any of it.

That's the problem with 24/7 coverage: the time has to be filled, somehow. These guys know people will tune in to make Trayvon their entertainment for the evening. So they haul out the "experts," they replay the911 call, they do all sorts of craven things in the name of being "journalists."

American TV pushes anti white racism, whats your point? That it is OK for the Black Panthers to push for his lynching.

Looks like you are throwing your own under the bus. Drek.

ManontheMoon

I took a look at it – unbelievable. The network should have a lot of explaining to do with this one, but they won't.

tagalog

I guess I wouldn't have any problem with classifying a guy whose descent is from an Anglo and a Hispanic parent as a "white" person. I know that the Nuremburg classifications of the mainstream media require that a person of such descent be termed a "Hispanic" solely, but that's not my view. Oh well, so be it. We live in a racialist world and some accommodation has to be made for that.

I also agree that the black view of racism is like a "black hole" of never being to escape the fact that some of the ancestors of white Americans (not mine, interestingly) were slave owners, and we AS WHITE PEOPLE, representing some sort of racial icon of oppression to black people. It seems rather niggardly of them to see all white people this way, when not all white people were slave owners and oppressors of black people, and many white people fought to end American slavery and international slavery, and supported civil rights for all people, but what the heck, it's just too easy to tar white people with the same brush, eh?

Western Spirit

Some of my ancestors were slave owners and the same line of ancestors later fought to free the slaves and changed from Democrat to Republican in order to support Lincoln. Nothing is all one way life's more complicated than that.

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http://www.themadjewess.wordpress.com MAD JEWESS

Absolutely, I agree.

http://www.themadjewess.wordpress.com MAD JEWESS

Wherever the $$$ is at for that one

tagalog

It's like looking into a black hole of non-white racism. The pull is so strong we'll never escape.

Winghunter

"While I was in such close contact with Zimmerman, I could observe that his back was all wet and covered with grass as if he'ld been laying on his back on the ground. Zimmerman was also bleeding from the nose AND THE BACK OF HIS HEAD."

“While SFD (Sanford Fire Department) was treating Zimmerman, I overheard him say to SFD, “I was yelling for someone to help me but, no one helped me!”

According to the latest US Department of Justice survey of crime victims, more than 6.6 million violent crimes (murder, rape, assault androbbery) are committed in the US each year, of which about 20 per cent,or 1.3 million, are inter-racial crimes.

Most victims of race crime – about 90 per cent – are white, according to the survey "Highlights
from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims", published in 1993. Almost 1 million white Americans were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by black Americans in 1992, compared with about 132,000 blacks who were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by whites, according to the same survey.

Blacks thus committed 7.5 times more violent inter-racial crimes than whites even though the black population is only one-seventh the size of the white population. When these figures are adjusted on a per capita basis, they reveal an extraordinary disparity: blacks are committing more than 50 times the number of violent racial crimes of whites.

Karl Stein

Let us cut out the rhetoric, and let the case be investigated with facts. Shame on those who jump on the unknown.
The whole issue is sad, and a life is lost, but it is sad when any innocent lives are lost.

pagegl

The MSM, or NFM as Ann calls it, has been calling Zimmerman a "white Hispanic". Is that anything like a "white black" like our illustrious president?

tagalog

It's something similar to the scene in that movie Little Big Man when Chief Dan George, "Grandfather," says to Dustin Hoffman, "Jack Crabb," when he mentions black Americans, "Ah, the black white man."

curmudgeon

are the racists aware that the white whale not only killed his persuer, but then rammed and sank the pequod, killing all but one of the crew? probably not. about the youngster murdered in chicago by rampaging non-racist mobs (they cant be racist, they are black and dont have power)………….was she perhaps of the hebrew persuasion? her first name, aliyah, is a hebrew word meaning ascent, and specifically it means immigration into eretz israel. if so, there is no wonder that the crime of of no importance, since the liberal media has aquiesced to the murder of all israelis by their friends and compatriots, the muslims. if not, is her name just the consequence of pure ignorance? the answer wont be found in the media.

tagalog

Let's hope that the Ishmael of the modern story isn't somebody like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, or the New Black Panthers.

Not to strain the metaphor too far, but Ishmael survives by clinging to the coffin from the Pequod (carved by the savage Tashtego), and is saved by the ship Rachel, named for the mother of Israel.

Ishmael, in his turn, promised by God that despite his questionable legitimacy he would also be the founder of a great nation, fathered the nomadic Arabs. In the light of this event, and the murder of Aliyah, the symbolism is fascinating. Maybe this is a playing-out, in miniature, of the American Tragedy as Herman Melville envisioned it.

MRobs

This president has turned this country into a third world cess pool. God help us. I am seriously thinking about selling everything and leaving this country for good. I am lucky I have the resources to do so. I only wish the rest of the hard working, tax paying population of this country could do the same an then let the liberals have whatever is left over.

crackerjack

The current racial upheaval is proof in itself how racially divided US still society is. It also proves that US society in general, black and white, have never come to terms with its troubled history and still stands deeply divided.

tagalog

Our Founding Fathers saw this divide coming with the essential emancipation of the slaves, and some of them advocated strenuously for sending the newly-freed slaves to Africa and getting them out of the United States. It didn't happen. We couldn't have sent five million freed slaves to Africa in 1789 any more than we could deport 12 million illegal immigrants today. It wouldn't have hurt to try, though, in my opinion.

crackerjack

Sounds like ethnic cleansing.

tagalog

That's exactly what it would have been in the case of the freed slaves. The idea was to avoid what the Founding Fathers forecast would be a lasting sense of hatred on the part of the former slaves, and a lingering sense of paternalism on the part of the whites.

So the ultimate question is which alternative, the freed slaves remaining in the States, or being deported to Africa, would have been the better one. We'll never know. Even black leaders like Marcus Garvey thought it would be better for blacks to go back to Africa, and of course some freed slaves DID return to Africa to found Liberia.

kentatwater

What it demonstrates, is that there are enough people still willing to believe race hucksters like Sharpton, Jesse, and Farrakhan. It demonstrates that there are enough people who fall for political rhetoric that conflates race and class, and will vote for whoever promises them the most from the government's coffers.

It also demonstrates that, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In your case, the hammer appears to be generic lamentations about racism.

Sage on the Stage

The only thing this case proves is how far some people–including the impostor in the WH–will go to divide us; hoping THAT will help re-elect him; regardless of the threats America faces.

fiddler

Perhaps what it largely gets down to is choosing whether or not to let bitterness rule your life.

Let's just take young men who didn't have a father around and are bitter about not being loved enough to be a priority in his life. Perhaps they have self-image problems. They have to end up dealing with what life unfairly has dealt them. If they don't, they will largely suffer divorce because of not being able to cope with wounded childhood.

From a corporate standpoint Unions tend to foment bitterness and a chip-on-the shoulder attitude. If you say, "that easy for YOU to say", all I can say is GROW UP! Deal with the setback! Pull yourself up and STOP PROJECTING! Act like an adult and be responsible, unless you think that is too hard.

Use Rev Jesse Lee Peterson as a positive example rather than Jesse Jackson. If you are called an Uncle Tom, thumb your nose at them and hold you head high!

rbla

Over the last 40 years the US has been constructing a modern day wergild; we should formalize it into law – it would create less confusion. White males have the least value. The MSM – Anderson Blooper, Wolfie, Mad Madow, Thom "Hoody" Hartman etc. have maliciously attempted to reduce the value of a member of a protected group by changing his designation to White Hispanic. They should be held to account for that.

Leon Pannetta

What was he doing when the school authorities found jewelry and a screw driver in his back pack.

And why isn't this discussion confined to a court of law.

Joanne

Black or white or asian. Who cares??? The fact is this kid was shot and killed and was unarmed. The whole legal system in America is flawed and shootings happen because guns are so readily available over there. You couldnt pay me enough money to live over there!!!

Another Dave

@ Joanne,
I do hope you you can keep up with the conversation. I does appear that you missed most (if not all) of the article and posts so far.
And as for "… living over there!!!", you must mean Florida, correct? If you are speaking of the United States, I think you have a profound misunderstanding of our system of laws, rights and responsibilities as citizens, a view doubtless tainted by your reliance on the Nanny State in the U.K.
Might I suggest Hayek's _The Road to Serfdom_ as a place to start fracturing your Utopian glasses?

Joanne

I've missed nothing at all dave. A young boy was shot and killed for no reason whatsoever. Murder is murder. I've been over to the US and the crime and racism over there is disgraceful. So what are the rights and responsibilities of your citizens? To chase and shoot down a kid who looks suspicious??? The whole world is looking at the US right now in disgust. Its world news, not just in the US

Don Kosloff

Your post confirms that you miss the obvious, which is much more than nothing. You cannot know that this young boy was shot and killed for no reason. Your opinions do not create facts. Murder is indeed murder when it happens. But that is determined by a court of law, not by your unsupported opinion. Self defense is an important right and responsibility of all humans, not just US citizens. Why would this case be world news, in comparison to other, much more serious crimes that are not world news? Your agreement with a dishonest agenda does not purify the agenda or the people who push it.

Joanne

Self defence against an unarmed kid??? If it was your own child would you have the same view? It's world news because of the whole injustice of the situation. Why was Zimmerman not charged like any other person would be for shooting and killing someone? Whats my dishonest agenda? That a young boy was shot dead? I apologise for having a heart. What a sad world we live in

Buska

Joanne I'm sure you are disturbed by the death of a politically selected minority victim. Didn't catch where you live but I'm sure there are plenty of victims round your place to keep your sad heart busy. If it was murder, not justifiable homicide, the courts will handle it. More likely even if he is innocent the racketeers will find a way to force this issue for their own gains including Obama.

Joanne

The minority victim has a name, and he is someones son, brother, nephew, cousin. Fortunately here in Australia you dont get shot at while walking down the street. Zimmerman would have already been in prison if it had happened over here. Hope your family never has to go through what his family has….my sad heart is sad for you and your narrow minded views.

stevefraser

Because it works for the Left and the Right has no skill or ability to use agitprop effectively for its own ends.

LHathaway

"it works for the Left and the Right has no skill or ability to use agitprop effectively for its own ends".

It works for the left because. . . as another poster said, "we should formalize it into law – it would create less confusion. White males have the least value".